Massing meaning

The result was the massing of some 30,000 National Guards to coerce the Convention.

Even when the mornings are still frosty in early March, dace will be found massing in the deeper water before shallow gravel riffles.

They are remarkable for skill in the massing of light and shade, richness and delicacy of colouring, and for the admirable style in which the drapery of the figures is handled, Bartolommeo having been the first to introduce and use the lay-figure with joints.

If the "massing vestments" continued anywhere in use, it was not for long.

The plate thus obtained shows accidental clouding, or massing of dark tones, and these patches are taken as the basis of a pictorial design to which final character is given by inlaying with gold and silver, and by kata-kiri sculpture.